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16 Comments
- robertisaar, on 06/25/2009, -1/+10and whatever OS you use now has NO bugs at all?
- sjvn, on 06/25/2009, -1/+7You forgot to mention that more than 10%+ of my submissions go popular. DIgg does well by me, but that doesn't mean that it--and the other voter-driven news link sites--don't have problems.
- uassholes, on 06/25/2009, -1/+7I take it that you other commenters are part of the burial party.
- Carpy, on 06/26/2009, -0/+6I thoroughly agree that Buries should be exposed just as Diggs are. Why is one public & the other private? Makes no sense.
- Erlik, on 06/26/2009, -0/+5I think that this highlights 2 problems of Digg:
First, Digg does not deal well with controversial content: stories that get a lot of "Digg" but also a lot of "Bury" usually don't make it. IMHO this is a mistake because this is a sign that the story is interesting and resonate strongly with people, so it should be promoted or at least highlighted somewhere. Digg is definitely missing a "most controversial stories" section.
Second Digg does not work very well on non mainstream content. If you are interested in news that only appeal to less than 5% of the internet population Digg is not very useful. It should be much easier to access the subcategories like 'Linux/Unix' or 'Microsoft' from the main page. - Jucken, on 06/26/2009, -1/+4And these comments just go to prove the article's claims...
- BigMur, on 06/28/2009, -0/+3It would be nice to have a "buried" page where people could see and read what was buried and by whom
- CurtHowland, on 06/28/2009, -0/+2As an active Digg user during the 2008 election cycle, I saw the coordinated burying of articles first hand.
- lagonda, on 06/27/2009, -0/+2I'm not quite sure why Buries exist.
As said If someone tries to stop people from reading something then its likely to be of interest to people.
Just remove the concept of buries and you get rid of this problem. Of course it does not get rid concerted efforts to unfairly promote an article.
At the end of the day it must be obvious if an article seems to be generating an unlikely number of digs and Digg should monitor these and downgrade them. - launchpadtt, on 06/29/2009, -0/+1I agree with that. The main page itself is useless. You really should be bookmarking or following the popular or upcoming feeds of categories that you're interested in. I noticed that when i looked one day and realised that the proportion of linux articles dropped dramatically from when the site was coming up.
That should be the next feature of digg. You should be able to tailor your front page, ala My Digg, where you only show the popular or upcoming sections of categories that you set as being interested in. - antdude, on 06/26/2009, -4/+4Let's bury this one too. [grin]
- KozmoMcRae, on 06/25/2009, -2/+1You sound like an expert in whining.
- theoldman59, on 06/26/2009, -1/+0Not really. The article claims that MS has an organized effort to crush anything anti-MS. Seems that there isn't any evidence to support that, just a bunch of paranoid people that can't figure out that no one wants to hear their trash. Others just push the bury button and it's over.
Fundemental rule of journalism, get the proof before writing. SJVN has no proof other than some "Patterns" that he never displayed. Show the patterns, show the proof. Make it good. - theoldman59, on 06/25/2009, -9/+1Whiner central. Lots of accusations, no proof. get some proof and lack of evidence is not evidence.
- inactive, on 06/25/2009, -12/+3When it starts working without bugs thats when I will be digging on my 2nd boot Ubuntu.
- unrealfan, on 06/25/2009, -14/+3WOW, what a ***** whiner, check out that that website's promotion history:
http://digg.com/search?s=computerworld.com+%2Bp
3 promotions yesterday and at least 10 in the past 30 days!
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